Anybody know of a decent "headless media server" application for a board like this? Would need an Android app to control it. I looked at XBMC as the media server, but the Android apps I saw to control it sucked (at least the remote control apps I looked at). Be nice to be able to play music, internet radio stations, etc, without needing to switch on the TV.

Are you looking for a DLNA compatible player or just a media player that can play files on storage? For the former I think xbmc is your best bet for an Android device. IIRC there is an official remote control app for it in case you haven't tried that.

There are some negative comments on the aliexpress site. People complaining about software support (no hardware acceleration on linux and android image is chinese or a stolen Zidoo image). Not sure if this is still the case, but I would hold back for now. Hardware is as strong as the software running on it.

There are some negative comments on the aliexpress site. People complaining about software support (no hardware acceleration on linux and android image is chinese or a stolen Zidoo image). Not sure if this is still the case, but I would hold back for now. Hardware is as strong as the software running on it.

Have you visited the official site? Yes, there is a hacked version of Zidoo that runs on it, but you are not limited to that OS, there are several other OS ported to it and work being done on others...

As for lack of hardware acceleration this is due tot he chip they used and lack of documentation, it will likely come in time once someone figures it out...

IMO for $15 you can't expect perfection and top of the line performance and support like the Raspberry Pi has since it's a brand new entry level product to get your feet wet, not the end all of single board computers...

The OP-PC is still in its early stage , the SBC uses Cortex-A7/Quad Core SOC from Allwinner ( SOC named as H3) , the only problem with these types of SOCs is that they are not supported by the original vendors to open community , full documentation is not released to general users and so is the sources though one can still found the Android fully supported by the vendor BUT when it comes to Linux then there are many limitations due to non availability of full documentation/code sources . The site/forum administrator named "Steven" is doing good/hard work and soon he will release more and more stable OS versions(with hardware acceleration support for SOC`s on chip Mali GPU ) to be used with OP-PC (this is what i was informed by him personally).

Does anyone know of a UK distributor for this? or within Europe who does small quantities. I'm not to keen on using AliExpress if I can help it.I'd love to have a play about with one, but I'm not quite ready to buy 100 just yet